Created an account specifically to reply to you.
I grew up in Bowie, MD. My family is middle-class, white, college educated. We lived in the "R" section, for what it's worth, and I attended Benjamin Tasker and Bowie High School.
With regards to PG County Police ...
Let me qualify this a little more by giving the atmosphere of Bowie in '70s and '80s.
Today ...
I hate going back there to visit my family. As bad as it was with PG County Police back then, it's a 100 times worse today and nothing has changed with regards to how PG County Police operate. They are violent. They are cruel. They are corrupt.
Yes, not every cop is bad cop. But PG County Police has taken the lion's share when it comes to venting their frustration on the, by and large, innocent residents of Bowie.
Maybe it has changed and I just can't see it? Maybe you know better because you live there now. But there is something deeply wrong with a community where you can have the best day at one of, what, four or five neighborhood pools and still end up being targeted by a fucking psycho cop and his fucking psycho buddy for God knows what and to what end.
Fuck Bowie.